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Andrea Pirro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. He is editor of the journal East European Politics and editor of the Routledge Book Series in Extremism & Democracy. Between 2014 and 2022, he served as Steering Committee chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy.
He holds an M.A. in Politics from the University of Sheffield and a Ph.D. in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena. Before joining the Department of Political and Social Sciences in Bologna, he was first Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence). He has been a visiting scholar at Central European University (Budapest), European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), University of Oslo, and European University Institute (Fiesole).
His research interests include: extremism, radicalism, populism, and democracy; Euroscepticism; political parties and party systems; social movements and political participation; and research design in the social sciences. He has published extensively on these topics.
